Today’s Business: 2010-02-14
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Today’s Activities
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Dispense Mom’s meds. DONE.
- Shower. DONE.
- Fill two weeks worth of Mom’s med trays for when I go on vacation. DONE.
- Order my train ticket for the upcoming visit to [Emmy]. DONE.
Log
09:00 AM: I’m up. My weight is the same as yesterday; 74.0 Lbs.
10:00 AM: Watched the 2010-01-28 episode of Dr. Phil on the DVR, about a couple who provided gestational surrogate child-birthing services for another couple, and then decided to keep the resulting baby twins because they learned things about the receiving couple that made them concerned about the welfare of the newborns. Good episode, though I think I’d avoid the whole surrogacy business altogether. There’s just too much risk that people will change their minds mid-cycle, as was the case here.
10:55 AM: Posted the IRIS WiFi WebRadio? Not Quite! piece.
12:50 PM: Watched the 2010-02-02 episode of Dr. Phil on the DVR. In this very touching show, he helps a victim of bullying find peace and comfort in her past by suggestion that she has bullied herself way more than the bullies did it to her. He also featured some of the cast of the TV Land show, High School Reunion, and brings another victim and a bully together to hash out their historical pains. Excellent episode.
01:50 PM: Watched the 2010-02-03 episode of Dr. Phil on the DVR, where he advises two couples in which the husbands are overly controlling and obsessive; another great episode.
01:55 PM: Mom just returned home from the store. She’s hosting a family dinner here at 4:00 PM. So far, sister Jojo and her kids are coming.
02:00 PM: I’ve made my Pittsburgh vacation trip reservations. I’m heading out there a week from today. I’m anxious to see if this IRIS WiFi Internet WebRadio works any better with [Emmy]‘s access point than it has with mine. Just in case we have similar problems, I’ll assemble a 50-foot long Ethernet cable, and we’ll connect the radio through that, to her router; it does work much better through Ethernet.
03:25 PM: Filled the med boxes with a two-week supply of Mom’s meds that my substitute caregivers can draw from while I’m on vacation.
03:40 PM: Worked the Christmas Lighting: 2009 project. Took down and put away some of the indoor decorations. After all, it’s Valentine’s day. It’s time.
05:00 PM: One of sister Christine’s little puppies almost died overnight. Apparently this runt of the litter got lost (too far away from the mother) and almost passed away on the cold concrete floor of her garage. It found an opening in the insulating blankets laid for the pups, and got underneath it, next to the floor. Its ears looked purple and took a few hours to warm up again. But at the moment, the little creature seems much more responsive, and hopefully will suffer no long-term ill-effects of this experience.
06:05 PM: [Emmy] is a member on facebook now, and I’ve made her one of my friends there.
06:10 PM: Sister Jojo’s family and sister Diane stopped in for a Valentine’s day dinner. We had pork roast, corn, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, salad, and some sort of Oreo cookie dessert, which I’m proud to say, I avoided; didn’t even crave it at all.
06:50 PM: Watched the 2010-02-04 & 2010-02-05 episodes of the Dr. Phil show. These were two parts of the same episode that exposed the potential inaccuracies of eyewitness testimony and how it so often and so easily can result in mistaken identity and thus, wrongful convictions. They talked with a woman who had been severely raped and brutalized at fifteen years of age, and the man whom she identified as the rapist. The justice system convicted this fellow, and locked him up for fourteen years, until DNA evidence exonerated him. The show focused on the two of them, getting past both their pains. Quite the tear-jerker episode; an excellent show actually.
08:00 PM: Watched the 2010-02-09 episode of the Dr. Phil show from the DVR, where he helps another drug-addicted young person to find the way back to sobriety. He brought a now-sober man that he’d helped several years ago to get away from black tar heroin, and this man encouraged the current patient to take the help that was offered. She eventually agreed to go into an intensive rehabilitation program, that could take months. But Dr. Phil has had success with this treatment system. So this new female patient will probably do okay. Not a bad show, but I liked the previous three of four episodes better.
09:10 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes news show from the DVR.
10:20 PM: Talked with [Emmy]. We were planning my vacation visit to her place. We plan on shopping and eating lots of Indian food from this quaint restaurant a few blocks away, and we’ll take in lots of Dr. Phil, The Young and the Restless, NBC’s Nightly News, and CBS’sEvening News. Can you tell that we’re quite the news junkies? If not, then let me tell you definitively: We are. 
I’m also anxious to let her play with the accessibility features on my new iPod Touch, and show her the IRIS Internet WebRadio. I’ll also take some of her Christmas gifts out to her as well.
11:15 PM: I’ve played KYW News Radio here on the computer through Winamp and it’s played non stop for well over four hours now; much more reliably than it did on the iPod Touch. This appears to be the same stream URL that I had so much trouble with the other day on the iPod Touch through WiFi. So this tells me that I probably have a good feed into the house here and ou of my firewall / router. Now, the stability of the same stream through WiFi should be checked. I’ll set up one of my laptops that has wireless capability and play KYW on it and see if it works as well as it does on this Ethernet-wired PC.
11:30 PM: Studied the rammification of creating a limited liability company (LLC) for my writing business. Their prices seem much more reasonable than what I was going to pay an attorney to file the articls of incorporation for me. It turns out that my hosting provider offers incorporation services to web-based businesses and most of the information can be filled out electronically. Nice. I’ll definitely do this, once more revenue comes in.
11:42 PM: Time for bed; this has been a very full day. So good night and take care. I’ll catch you here again tomorrow.
Received Mail and Shipments
- No mail today.
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